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Rugby League gave a young Julia Lee a sense of belonging, and so began a life-long love affair with the

The Mixed Zone’s Eleanore Kelly profiles Nina Barbour, whose entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen has established the Bolesworth International Horse

Climbing is set to become the next upwardly mobile sport after it was given Olympic status. Nick Friend talks to

Sir Steve Redgrave once said that if endurance sport carried on the way it was going, women might one day

Tammy Parlour, co-founder of the Women’s Sports Trust, made a bold statement at the #BeAGameChanger Awards to the effect that

There will be no female jockeys in the Derby today. However, Josephine Gordon not only wants to ride in the

British tennis players, Johanna Konta and Heather Watson, have both been complaining, one more vehemently than the other, about their

As a child, Nadia Nadim had to flee the Taliban in Afghanistan. Now at home playing for Manchester City, and

Former England netball player Tamsin Greenway is a passionate supporter of the joint Sky Sports-Women’s Sports Trust #ShowUp campaign, but

Isa Guha has just arrived home following a stint commentating at the Indian Premier League. Since touching down, the former

Paralympic skiing champion Charlotte Evans is one of a growing number of athletes left staring into the abyss when their

Later this year, Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy will swap the velodrome for cycling on ice as he attempts to

Hannah Macleod has not rested on her laurels since winning a gold medal at the Rio Olympics. Since then the

Major Nic Wetherill tells The Mixed Zone’s Emily Victoria about achieving her long-held ambition to ski to the South Pole

England’s hockey players start their Commonwealth Games fixtures tomorrow with a preliminary-round match against South Africa. Giselle Ansley tells The

Sports Minister Tracey Crouch announced last week an action plan to stop professional athletes ‘reaching crisis point’ with their mental

Hear that resounding thump? That is the last dinosaur in the primordial Premier League swamp keeling over. In this case,

England cricketer Sarah Taylor tells The Mixed Zone’s Emily Victoria about her ongoing fight with anxiety and why she has

Teenage motor-racing driver Jamie Chadwick agrees with Jenson Button that there is no physical reason why women can’t be part

To mark International Women’s Day, The Mixed Zone invited a cross-section of athletes, coaches and media to reveal their wishes